Pith Number

pith:ZYOXB2YM

pith:2012:ZYOXB2YMOY3MHOEZBY7JD6YQFO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Towards quantitative measures in applied ontology

Georgios V. Gkoutos, Michel Dumontier, Robert Hoehndorf

arxiv:1202.3602 v1 · 2012-02-16 · cs.AI · q-bio.QM

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZYOXB2YMOY3MHOEZBY7JD6YQFO}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T03:44:05.187619Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ce1d70eb0c7636c3b8990e3e91fb102b9c3faa178eddc07aea25c83228bd8d39

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.3602 · arxiv_version: 1202.3602v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.3602 · pith_short_12: ZYOXB2YMOY3M · pith_short_16: ZYOXB2YMOY3MHOEZ · pith_short_8: ZYOXB2YM

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZYOXB2YMOY3MHOEZBY7JD6YQFO \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: ce1d70eb0c7636c3b8990e3e91fb102b9c3faa178eddc07aea25c83228bd8d39

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "47bceea875264687d3633d538dd203ff3d0aa5bd4b444019b3c203f1b5ed4d97",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.QM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-16T14:26:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "49534cf20bb99ec5a3519347c2ec90bef9e473e641e1f0fabb2059cac8cf4a18"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.3602",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}